# Open-sourcing Vigilion our anti-virus & anti-malware scanner API
> We are pleased to announce that Bit Zesty has decided to open-source our project called Vigilion, an easy-to-integrate cloud file scanning API service. Our real-time anti-malware security solution stops viruses from reaching your users and helps you meet IT Health Checks (ITHC) security requirements
Author: Matthew Ford
Published: 2022-12-09

<p>We are pleased to announce that Bit Zesty has decided to open-source our project called Vigilion, an easy-to-integrate cloud file scanning API service. Our real-time anti-malware security solution stops viruses from reaching your users and helps you meet IT Health Checks (ITHC) security requirements for your cloud services.</p><p>UK government organisations, such as BEIS, DCMS and the National Archives, are currently using it.</p><p>Vigilion is designed to make it easier for developers to integrate malware scanning into their applications so that end users are more protected against malicious files. By open-sourcing the project, we hope to more developers will use Vigilon to create safer user experiences across all web applications.</p><p>The open-source version includes all of the features that were in our paid version, including support for multiple file types, virus scanning, and more.</p><p>It provides a REST API, which is also useable with the existing Vigilion Ruby and Rails API clients and comes with documentation to help developers build their own API clients.</p><p>To ease the deployment, we have also included a Dockerfile which we use to deploy to Amazon AWS using Copilot.</p><p>Head to our GitHub page and check out Vigilion to get started!</p><p><a href="https://github.com/bitzesty/vigilion-scanner">https://github.com/bitzesty/vigilion-scanner</a></p><p><a href="https://github.com/vigilion/vigilion-ruby">https://github.com/vigilion/vigilion-ruby</a></p><p>Let’s make the web a safer place for everyone together!</p><p>If you have questions about Vigilion, need help setting it up, or want to learn more about Bit Zesty’s services, feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:info@bitzesty.com">info@bitzesty.com</a>.</p>
